Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought into America pieces of the past--Ayurvedic medicine, say, or Tai Chi, and, more deeply, a sense of community and continuity that has breathed new life into the "old-fashioned" American values of family loyalty and hard work. In cultures as in households, the old pass on their wisdom, and the young bring their reviving innocence...
When Germany invaded Russia in 1941, Roosevelt once again defied prevailing opinion. To the isolationists, the invasion of Russia confirmed the wisdom of keeping America out of the war. America should rejoice, they argued, in watching two hated dictatorships bleed each other to death. Within the government, Roosevelt's military advisers argued that Russia had almost no chance of holding out. Still, Roosevelt insisted on including Russia in the lend-lease agreement. In the first year alone, America sent thousands of trucks, tanks, guns and bombers to Russia, along with enough food to keep Russian soldiers from starving, and enough...
What Johnson and other believers agree on is the wisdom of the company's relentless reinvestment in new markets in lieu of banking premature profits. Bezos' strategic analysis goes like this: customer acquisition is only going to get harder tomorrow, so you have to grab every customer you can today. For those 13 million customers translate into dominant market share. And dominant market share means the power, for instance, to strong-arm suppliers for better deals, which could lead to profitability. BMVP2000...
...American triumph in the '90s came as a rude surprise to some. Only a decade ago, Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers ushered in the conventional wisdom that America, suffering from "imperial overstretch," was in decline. With the collapse of the Soviet Empire, it was assumed that the world would go from cold war bipolarity to multipolarity. After all, was not Japan flourishing, Europe unifying, China rising...
...helped many of us take a new look at our own country and at the way we live. I knew him personally, and he influenced my views. Sakharov was the real spiritual father of democratic change in Russia. I am intensely aware of how much we miss his wisdom, firmness and humanity today. I am grateful to fate that I had the chance to know Andrei Dmitriyevich and work alongside him. --Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia...